This movie has everything - except a competent director. Saturday Fiction has a very attractive premise but it fails to deliver. The protagonists find themselves toying the lines between two fractions of Chinese government.

A movie stuffed to bursting with sumptuous movie-movie atmosphere, the swoony charge of ideas about art, love, and espionage, and good-enough storytelling solutions. The spy games of pre-Pearl Harbor Shanghai aren't much fun to play and less to watch, in Lou Ye's incomprehensible Venice Production: (China) A Qianyi Times, Yongfilms, Bai An Films, Tianyi Movie & TV, Zhuoran Fims, UEP, Qianyiyuan, Fanyu Media production. But "Saturday Fiction" has one undeniable ace up its sleeve, and her name is Gong Li.

Saturday Fiction

Fifty-three years old and still every bit as beguiling as she was in Zhang The movie begins with Jean on stage with her ex-lover during a play rehearsal in which the director is also acting as the show's leading man. MRQE Metric: See what the critics had to say and watch the trailer. Saturday Fiction, seemingly made with approval from the Chinese censors, finally feels like a rather demure genre yarn. Venue: Venice Film Festival (Competition) Production companies: Qianyi Times, Yingfilms, Bai An Films, Tianyu Movie & TV, Zhuoran Films, UEP, Qianyiyuan, Fanyu Media Cast. Review: In Saturday Fiction, History Itself Is the Realization of Performance. The hegemony of history is rigid, but Lou Ye is still Romola Garai's Amulet centers around the much-discussed horror movie trope of the arcane or abject mother figure, combining its critical take on the typically masculine fear of.

Trailer Saturday Fiction

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